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Editor:
In last week’s News and in the preceding week’s News there were two of the most important communications I have ever seen there. First came the letter from “Ima Farmer” (bless him or her), anc the other was the two-page editorial or essay paid for (mindyou! by the ENVIRONMENTAL FUND. Both expressed from only slightly differing points of view the alarm to which we can never afforc to turn a deaf ear or an unseeing eye (though in point of fact we dc both daily). The subject of that alarm? This very, very thin skir of soil covering our world between and under the oceans, or which every speck of life depends for its existence.
Familiarity has accurately beer charged with breeding contempt or at least unawareness. But t( use that saying to describe th< general American attitude towarc the land is not accurate. True, i dangerously few people are familiar enough with the land and its microscopic population—or tha abstract being called Nature whicl is not a bit abstract. There is, am grateful, a woefully small min ority seeking to know, and giv< their hearts to the search, how t< treat this life-supporting legacy which is so scant and so easil: harmed. But the vast majority, t< their peril, are not familiar wit! the soil and don’t know that the: don’t know. Nor, as the ENVIR
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